Technology doesn’t age gracefully. Bricked phones and crapped-out hard drives retire to your junk drawer only a few years after emerging from their shrink wrap. A precious few of our worldly wants, however, do improve with time and use. Objects like the ones here satisfy the Japanese tenet of wabi-sabi,…

Galaxies come in a menagerie of shapes, from spiral pinwheels, to flat pancakes, to round balls. Now astrophysicists find these shapes may reveal clues about the age of galaxies, a discovery that could in turn yield insights on the dramatic ways galaxies can form and evolve over time. Previous research…